December 17, 2025 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Scammers are circulating fraudulent PayPal payment notifications. The emails originate from a legitimate ...

INDIANAPOLIS — While I’m always on the lookout for the latest scams, I didn’t have to look far for this one–it landed right in my inbox. At first glance, the email appears to be from PayPal Customer ...

PayPal users have been taking to Reddit in order to warn others of a particularly dangerous new attack campaign targeting users of the payment platform, which is, to say the least, very hard for ...

A recent data theft at PayPal caused a huge stir when a hacker was found wanting to sell access data to around 15.8 million accounts online—including user passwords in plain text. This type of data ...

About a month ago, I received a scam email that almost tricked me. It purported to be from PayPal, alerting me to an almost $1,000 charge that was “logged to a new profile.” The message implied that ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A local man lost $50,000 to scammers after getting a fake email from people pretending to be from PayPal. Scammers are sending emails that may look like they are coming from PayPal, ...

Online scams are becoming more dangerous and convincing every day. Cybercriminals are finding new ways to gain not just your login credentials but full control of your computer and your bank accounts.

There’s a new PayPal phishing scam making the rounds, and it’s so convincing that even security-conscious users are getting caught in it. Unlike typical scams riddled with typos and fake domains, this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated December 16 with a statement from PayPal, as well as ...

Q: Someone made an unauthorized purchase of $1,365 using my PayPal email address. I have filed claims three times, and the first two times they claimed this transaction was “consistent with previous ...